Race/Class Weapon Models?

[Yig]

It's the complete restriction on glaives that makes me think they are being saved for something. It's just way too iconic to Warcraft 3 to keep them restricted to NPCs.

I remember when we got this datamined in Cata's beta, and we all freaked out about how awesome this would be as a raid or heroic drop. Sure enough, this awesome custom model was wasted on nothing more than being a weapon for cultist NPCs in Blackrock.

[Skur]

They all look super great, except that the tauren fistweapon look quite bland and not very tauren-like.

[Wollveren]

Does anyone know where these weapons drop? Or are they part of 5.2?

[dokhidamo]

It's the complete restriction on glaives that makes me think they are being saved for something. It's just way too iconic to Warcraft 3 to keep them restricted to NPCs.

I remember when we got this datamined in Cata's beta, and we all freaked out about how awesome this would be as a raid or heroic drop. Sure enough, this awesome custom model was wasted on nothing more than being a weapon for cultist NPCs in Blackrock.

Blizz has said before that they feel there's already too many types of gear. Since back in the days of 40-mans you'd probably have someone that needed any type of armor or weapon that dropped. Now when most people raid 10s, you may find some gear or weapons that just get DE'd because no one can use them.

They won't add another new weapon type because of that, even though every dev seems to have a weapon they would love to add (one said whips).

[Yig]

Blizz has said before that they feel there's already too many types of gear. Since back in the days of 40-mans you'd probably have someone that needed any type of armor or weapon that dropped. Now when most people raid 10s, you may find some gear or weapons that just get DE'd because no one can use them.

They won't add another new weapon type because of that, even though every dev seems to have a weapon they would love to add (one said whips).

Nice try, but no. Glaives aren't a new weapon type. They are one handed swords, with one handed sword animations. Just like the one and only warglaive we have in game which is a legendary already.

Apply your logic above to fist weapons, and see it dissolve. There are all manner of shapes and sizes for fist weapons, from claws, to glaives, to spikes, to gloves.

Glaives do not represent a brand new weapon type, nor do they represent too much variety in an issue with wasted gear.
It is a purely cosmetic item.

Tauren logs would be 2 handed maces, and share their animations. The problem with Tauren logs is they would look ridiculous with any race that isn't a Tauren.

[checking facts]

Tauren logs would be 2 handed maces, and share their animations. The problem with Tauren logs is they would look ridiculous with any race that isn't a Tauren.

all they have to do is to put a tauren log in a tauren-only quest and have it require the tauren race to be used. you can't transmog into things you can't use, so the whole problem would be solved.

[Yig]

all they have to do is to put a tauren log in a tauren-only quest and have it require the tauren race to be used. you can't transmog into things you can't use, so the whole problem would be solved.

I agree. Just like for the Blood Knight tabard. I'm just saying, Blizz is hesitant to do things like that. However, they DO do them, warlock green fire quests, rogue legendary daggers, etc.

It's just a hard thing to justify in a world of ever increasing awesome ideas with only so many devs to make them happen. Tauren tree trunk weapons do look a little rough even with tauren using them. But I don't give a damn, they rock.